I wrote our first Opinion piece in response to @gruber 's own perspectives on the negative reactions a good chunk of the #fediverse has towards Meta's impending presence here.

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https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/john-gruber-no-understand/

John Gruber Doesn't Know What He's Talking About

Daring Fireball's John Gruber put out several statements in reaction to the Fediverse's more negative reactions about Meta joining the network.

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@deadsuperhero @gruber I'm reminded about years ago with Livejournal in terms of organic community discovery.

One of the things that would I think have kept it going would have been an easier way to follow people who were on other instances of livejournals code.

But this isn't a technical issue. It's asking users and admins to trust a known bad actor.

@deadsuperhero @gruber Folks on here do have a choice of community to move to. Yes moving is hard and it sucks when defederation happens.

But it is possible to move instances now, and that will improve. As a user I moved a sub account of mine to another instance, purely because of their admins attitude.

What we in the community have a duty to do is on-board, like we did years ago with Gmail invités, Like we did when telling our friends about the networks we were on.